| so, I am still enroute to Iraq. sort of starting on Wednesday evening, I went with about 24 other guys to tag along with 250 guysheading over from wisconsin on one plane. then, when I was just about to be checked off the list to go, they realized that they were overweight and kicked 5 of us tagalongs off the plane. no big deal, we got in with a smaller, less crowded group leaving at midnight (gave me time to play one last prank on my commander involving a jar of vaseline, the keys to a van, and a size 9 pair of shiny red panties). we headed to kuwait city via canada, iceland and hungary, where I called some of you on skype. once at the acclimatization camp in kuwait, I had 2 weeks to sit around and get used to the weather before heading north. Then, at about 9 am the next day, I was told that myself and one other guy were leaving at 1300 sharp so pack our shit and get ready to go. 1300 of course turned out to be 1439, but we got to the air force base in time anyway. turns out that the flight they "squeezed us into" was half empty. we were flying on sherpas, which are alot like the kind of plane you'd expect to watch indiana jones jump out of with an life raft on a mountain. when we land, we find out that we're not where we were going, the weather was to bad, and we had to go back. so I spent an hour and a half in Iraq eating pizza. now I'm waiting for the third plane today that I've tried to get on. this on is supposed to have 90 open seats, and I'm number 7 on the list, so I should make it. I think. |
